To prevent POODLE vulnerability, SSL3
protocol has to be disabled and TLS must be used instead.

The following modules support SSL
Protocols in HP-UX Perl:

Net::SSLeay

Crypt::SSLeay

----------------------------------------------------------------------------A.Net::SSLeay----------------------------------------------------------------------------Users of this component are advised to change the protocol usage
to

----------------------------------------------------------------------------B.
Crypt::SSLeay----------------------------------------------------------------------------This perl component by design does not have options to change
the protocol to TLS.Users are therefore advised to use other modules which
support secure protocols.

As the most popular web
programming language due to its facility with text manipulation and rapid
development cycle, Perl is a high-level programming language created and
enhanced by the Open Source community. Perl takes the best features from other
languages, such as C, awk, sed, sh, and BASIC, among others and at least a dozen
other tools and languages. Perl's process, file, and text manipulation
facilities make it particularly well-suited for tasks involving quick
prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system management tasks, database
access, graphical programming, networking, and world wide web programming. Perl
is very popular with system administrators and CGI script authors because of
these special features.

HP OpenSource Perl is
available as an always-installed product on all HP-UX 11i Operating Environment
media and is built using HP C/C++ Compilers. 32-bit and 64-bit Perl can be
installed independently with the default being 32-bit.

HP OpenSource Perl is
optimized for HP-UX 11i PA-RISC and HP-UX 11i Itanium Processor Family (IPF)
platforms. From E.5.8.8.C or later version onwards Perl is available on
OpenSource. To download latest version of Perl, click on License
and download page.

Perl can be embedded
into web servers to speed up processing by as much as 2000%.

The Apache web server
can use mod_perl to embed a Perl interpreter.

Using Perl's DBI
package, such as web-database integration, is easy.

Multi-task

Perl is flexible and
extensible enough for you to use on virtually any task, from one-line
file-processing tasks to large, elaborate systems.

For many people, Perl
serves as a great replacement for shell scripting. For others, it serves as a
convenient, high-level replacement for most of what they'd program in
low-level languages like C or C++.

If you have a library
that provides an API, you can make any component of it available as just
another Perl function or variable using a Perl extension written in C or C++
and dynamically linked into your main perl interpreter.

You can also go the
other direction, and write your main program in C or C++, and then link in
some Perl code on the fly, to create a powerful application.

Release notes

For more information
about the current product changes, see the PERL Release
notes.